So Engine is still missing colour and fields like energy or grouping that other DJ software supports.
So we are stuck with the main fields.
title artist album genre comment label composer remixer key rating
What are you using things like composer for or label to get around these limitations.
I’m thinking of using composer for Energy/Grouping as I don’t seem to have anything in it for most of my music, but what creative ways are you using the “spare” fields for ?
Honestly, I just want on device star rating, that would cover all my needs to get tracks labelled up as favourites.
Amen to that That and colours and I’d get so much more value out of my denon kit!
The colours have never bothered me in Serato as I’m colourblind, so I ended up just using them to mark favourite tracks, but not have any kind of coding as I struggle to distinguish between some of them. I can see how they’d be useful though.
We definitely need some way of being able to mark a track on the fly, I never listen to my music sat on a laptop at home, it’s always whilst mixing etc.
same on my side, it wil make workflow more easy by knowing which colours match with diffrent genre like r&b is BLUE ,RED afrobeat ,GREEN dancehall ,YELLOW house music ect… plus by adding search by colour will be perfect
This is why I don’t understand why they’ve not added colours in.
I use red for explicit, as I do lots of gigs, where they can’t be played.
I know people who use them for “heat” so red - bangers, orange mid-party, yellow warm up and green calm music.
I know people as you suggest use them for genre. It’s such a flexible tool for us DJ’s and they already display “green” on the screen, why the text can’t change based on a new DB field I don’t know.
i hope they add it in the future update
I use the composer field in iTunes to my automatic sorting (smartlists).
It helps me a great deal. 
Could you share what you are doing - sounds every interesting?
Say I create some general playlists for weddings. (I’m an open format and an Event Dj)
So I have
Then I get iTunes to create a smartlists based on those tags in the composer field. Composer field contains Wed"X"
Now, some of the tracks in the Reception (or Dance) category, can also be used in other playlists, so with the track “Move” from Adam Port, Stryv & Malachii, I have the text “Wed1” and also “Afro” in the composer field. This way it is listet in my Afro House playlist as well as in my Reception playlist
And when I remove any of these “tags” they are removed from the corresponding playlists/ smartlists.
Using the label field for the label name, which is among the most important fields for me.
Any additional details/remarks I have for a track, I put in the “comment”-field. I do see how it will get messy if you have multiple customized additions though..
Could you explain why the label is so important for you ? Can you give some examples of labels and how you use them ?
I think he means ‘record label’, so he can search for all Strictly Rhythm tracks etc.
Sure! As Stu mentions, it’s for record labels.
In my area of electronic music, a record label often represents a certain niche of styles and artists, and usually gives me a better idea of the vibe of the track, compared to just the overall genre 
Yeah I did realise you meant Record Label, looking at most that wouldn’t work (motown, epic etc) but something like Defected, they cover a wide range, and most labels tend to creep out, so I’d not really considered that some stay niche enough to be useful, but yeah I can see how that would really work for some genres.
Out of interest, what do you play and can you give an example of two labels? Always keen to listen to new music.
So, I agree that there are labels that stick to a very specific genre/style/flavour, but as stated, there are also labels that don’t stick to such specifics. I find that the more popular or mainstream a label is, the more likely they are to have a wider range of music styles. That’s not to say that genre-specific labels don’t get popular, but both types definitely exist.
For example, you have Anjuna, which describes multiple labels, each of which have their own dominant genres. Anjunabeats was more of a trance label, while Anjunadeep was later created for more of a Melodic House & Techno / Progressive House.
Other labels have similar approaches, ie: Perfecto (1989), Perfecto Black (2009), and depending on your source of tracks, you might not even realize the subsidiary.
So, often a label starts to grow, starts taking on different music styles, and then creates ‘sublabels’ to start categorizing and making it easier for people to find the genres they want.
I think it’s the same mentality you see with artists, who release different styles under different names. It helps people with specific tastes enjoy their music and prevent confusion of what is being released, such as Eric Prydz releasing under Pryda or Cirez D, depending on the track being released.